Section 1302 – Contracts for statewide mental health crisis line and statewide warm line — Crisis worker and certified peer support specialist qualification or certification.

Affected by 63I-1-262 on 7/1/2023

Effective 5/12/2020
62A-15-1302. Contracts for statewide mental health crisis line and statewide warm line — Crisis worker and certified peer support specialist qualification or certification.

• (1)
  • (a) The division shall enter into a new contract or modify an existing contract to manage and operate, in accordance with this part, the statewide mental health crisis line and the statewide warm line.
  • (b) Through the contracts described in Subsection (1)(a) and in consultation with the commission, the division shall set standards of care and practice for:
    • (i) the mental health therapists and crisis workers who staff the statewide mental health crisis line; and
    • (ii) the mental health therapists, crisis workers, and certified peer support specialists who staff the statewide warm line.

• (2)
  • (a) The division shall establish training and minimum standards for the qualification or certification of:
    • (i) crisis workers who staff the statewide mental health crisis line, the statewide warm line, and local mental health crisis lines; and
    • (ii) certified peer support specialists who staff the statewide warm line.
  • (b) The division may make rules, in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, necessary to establish the training and minimum standards described in Subsection (2)(a).

Amended by Chapter 303, 2020 General Session